Notices tagged with linux

This is one of those "I am sure somebody has already written something like this" moments.

I need an SMTP proxy thingy, where on one hand it acts as an SMTP server for a piece of software that needs to send e-mails from a number of e-mail addresses; on the other it just connects to an actual SMTP server using credentials configured per sender e-mail address used in a given e-mail.

Looked at msmtp, ProxSMTP, ssmtp, and a few others; so far no luck. Any hints?

#SysAdmin #Linux

For the benefit of less technically savvy thinkers, I'd like to figure out how to make virtual machine images with a lean #Linux distro and #TiddlyWiki #nodejs pre-installed and setup for web publishing. #ideas

OpenSSL, osprober, patch, pciutils, pcmciautils, pkgtools: this week, on GNU World Order!

http://gnuworldorder.info/#12x29

#linux #podcast

I really need to figure out how to remind myself that pushd and popd exist and that they're damned handy.

#linux #cmdline

About 3 years ago I was setting up a cron-based thingy, and documented it. One of the lines from the documentation reads:
"- the name consists of large and small caps, digits, underscores and dashes *only*; files with a dot in the name *will be ignored*;"

This just saved me hours of debugging why my cron script doesn't work.

Ffs, who the hell wrote cron and why did they think that ignoring scripts with dot in the name is a good idea! Argh!

#SysAdmin #Linux #WTF

@_tj Has #Linux addressed the concerns that #grsecurity has with #eBPF? https://forums.grsecurity.net/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=4463

"There just is too many people that only try the top ten #linux distros, which are all really similar, because they think that one of them has to fit and that the others all all bad. That's certainly not the case. There is successful developers and companies (plural there) running any of the top 100."

-https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13343571

I'm having some fun tonight customizing my #LibreOffice styling. Is there a site where I can download some of these?

#Linux #Libre #Software

Hey #fediverse! I am starting to work on a project with #RaspberryPi Zero W and am wondering what flavor of #Linux you would recommend. They will be headless and need to post pictures, videos and sensor data to the internet. My first guess would be #alpine because thats what I see most people talking about these days but haven't yet used myself.

This week's GNU World Order: 8 reasons to use Guile from @ixn, and a little bit about packaging up a custom kernel in Slackware.

http://gnuworldorder.info/#12x28

#linux #podcast

I find it amusing how people still think Ubuntu is the most user-friendly #GNU distro with #Linux in it, and that the #Debian installer hasn't changed since 1990. What about #Trisquel? Or #Mint? Or #Elementary? Or any one of a hundred other distros that just as noob-friendly, use less resources idling, and have never bundled #AmazonLens spyware. Ubuntu is so last decade. Catch up people!
https://niu.moe/@Ocean22/99913526463000966

@sir @bob @Wolf480pl @Michcioperz that looks useful, I'll check out the demo. But be aware that "install from npm" is a huge barrier. I'm a confident #GNU + #Linux user with very basic coding and Git skills and I have no idea how to do that. That's a packaging issue, not a comment on the feature-set or quality of the UI (which I haven't seen yet), but it's worth being aware of it when you're proposing tools for mainstream use

@aven RiseUp host email, lists, websites, etherpads, XMPP, and various other service for a wide range of activist groups, and have done for more than a decade, running mostly on users donations (plus some small grant). They are contributors to the various projects they use in their hosted services, and are the lead developers on the #Crabgrass groupware server, and the Tails anonymous live #GNU + #Linux distro. That's just off the of my head.

@aral is there also a successor project to Cyanogen founded by one of the #Mandrake #GNU + #Linux founders?

@notclacke
let me ask you this though, do you think it's good that Windows is used on computers all across China? Was this a necessary transitional stage? Or would it have been better if they had gone straight to using (and contributing to) #GNU + #Linux + other #FreeCode software?

Wow. Manjaro is really popular. Been running #KTorrent for about 24 hours. #torrent #ISO #linux #distros #gigabit

@njoseph @RussSharek it's not practical to share pocket-size client devices (eg "smartphone") in the same way it is to share a VPS or box-in-the-closet. But I'd like to see a return to more shared client devices too, eg a shared #GNU #Linux PC-as-a-screen ("Smart TV") that families use to take turns pulling up short #PeerTube videos to watch together, or playing instrumental versions of songs to sing along to together

ZFS pool in order. 1 new drive resilvered. No known data errors. #zfs #linux